Margery Allingham Quotes

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
Margery Allingham

Forgetting, Valuable, Minute

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.
Margery Allingham

Nature, Blessed, Needs

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.
Margery Allingham

Blood, Police, Remarkable

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
Margery Allingham

Two, Between, Intuition

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
Margery Allingham

Cannot, Attention, Command

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
Margery Allingham

Mind, Optimism, Healthy

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?
Margery Allingham

Everything, May, Tea

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: May 20, 1889

Died: June 30, 1966

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